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Separated at birth?

Go to the spiritual heart, and there will be a doorway to the next plane of consciousness

Black Rain II

When an atomic bomb is dropped and hits the earth, a large fireball develops close to the ground. Warm air rises, sucking up debris, mixing

Beili Liu's paradox: Each and Every

Beili Liu’s stirring work in MadArt’s installation venue pulls you in. Your eye drifts up, then down to an archipelago of greyed, discarded

The third largest country?

What country is synonymous with development, rampant with highways, tall buildings, bridges and dams—and is the third largest emitter of CO2

Making peace with art

My family had a picnic on a recent weekend, celebrating my dad’s 91st birthday. We passed around some photos of his time in Japan after...

To name a few

I'm one of those people who always reads the labels in art museums. And some art has become memorable , first for the experience of...

Not your mama’s Dada

Question: is all art inherently political? Here’s one way to think about contemporary art: it’s an expression of how artists interact...

Living under a cloud

Having learned a few years ago that my father worked on and witnessed atomic bomb tests on Bikini and Enewetak atolls in the mid-1950’s,...

The attraction of science

It’s been said before (and more explicitly), but I f-ing love science! A scientist can envision many peculiar worlds; not only the one we...

Wild and precious

Remember when your definition of “old” kept changing as you grew from a child, through adolescence, through your 20’s, 40’s and so on? I...